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Middle name Mansel. German I'm told. My uncle's first name was Mansel, but there was a short name for that, "Mank" and I was named after him and little so I was Mankey or "Little Mank". By the way, Mank rhymes with TANK but with an "M".

Guess when I was born? Also I learned Electronics Theory in the US Navy at San Diego and Great Lakes Naval Training Centers from 1978-1980. I was trained as a Radar Technician but did most of my 8 year stint in the Navy in the communications field. I can tell you what a pulse-forming network is, but I also can tell you about a thing called a Phantastron! And I learned Smith Charts in Denver when I became a metrologist. (NOT a meteorologist. I am NOT a weatherman).

Got into computers in 1982 and became fascinated with them. Learned about the z8088 processor and went up from there. I wish Gernsback still published Electronics Now magazines! I love them things!

Hi guys and girls ??? , well my boring name is from my boring biz name cause i am too boring to think of something clever like most of the rest of you ! sigh ! never mind takes all kinds right ???? so some of us are here to make up the numbers & make the clever ones look good right ?????Cheers Paul.

Yeah hi hello. I've got a long and checkered past of avoiding electronics because, well, it scared the tits off me so I jumped into every other field that I could pretend that electronics knowledge wasn't necessary (customer service, network ops, tech support, food service, programming...)

So now I'm here, laid off from my net-ops job and not looking forward to being a glorified cable-jockey anymore, and I stumbled into the energy management/building sustainability/building controls field, which means I'ma spend a heck of a lot of time troubleshooting HVAC units and performing blower-door tests.. And shockingly, my courseload seemts to avoid the actual workload of folks I've run into in a few different area, and I decided that I need to get a solid hand on electronics as a whole piece - instread of waiting 9 months to spend 400-500 bucks on some weak-ass electronics class for 4 credits, which is probably angled toward passing young students straight out of high school who are working in a vacuum with no other skills.

I'm kind of a bad ass at making spreadsheets and databases, monitoring analytics, network theory and security and practise, and a heck of a lot of financial and eingineering stuff.. But right now t seems as though I need to be able to walk into a skyscraper and lay down some measurement devices after tweaking all of the equipment, and then drawing up retrofit plans on why a 50+ tall building needs to take me seriously..

So I need to learn the base level electrical stuff and I'm super excited to get into it, because I both love it, and I need to convince high-paid execs that they ought to trust my opinion when it comes down to it

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